How to Use might/may as well in a Sentence

might/may as well

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  • The Stone Age may as well have been named the Wood Age.
    Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 7 May 2024
  • But the play might as well be staged in the lobby of a grand hotel.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • The men might as well get used to being the opening act.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The steep shale slide might as well have been Mount Everest.
    Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
  • Fire might as well be spouting from the tips of his fingers.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • But for Nexstar, the numbers may as well be akin to the Super Bowl.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
  • For many Israelis, the two buildings might as well be worlds apart.
    Dan Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
  • Sunday’s 7-4 defeat against the Dodgers might as well have been one, too.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour might as well be the new red carpet.
    Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • His long melancholy asides to friends might as well be paragraphs on a page.
    Hazlitt, 10 July 2024
  • Her win is so certain that this might as well be the free space on your bingo card.
    Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That statement might as well have doubled as a sales pitch.
    Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The saying may as well apply to the form of the bio-musical itself.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Opening day of the season may as well have been Christmas.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024
  • So, in many cases, they might as well already be shut down.
    CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The freaks and me may as well have been wired in a direct feed from the Marshalls, so pure and raw is the group’s transfer of madness.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The private estate sits on two acres, which may as well be a million on the island.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2024
  • For some Swifties, their favorite singer might as well have endorsed Trump.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The defensive line might as well have been wearing roller skates.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Heavy, ample, plump, tubby—these might as well be curse words.
    TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, a decade ago may as well be a lifetime ago, as far as the media business is concerned.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • If the rest of the country — hell, the rest of the world — is going to make Florida the punchline, then those who call it home might as well be in on the joke.
    Patricia Mazzei Jason Andrew, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • And anyway, given the anemic state of mainstream modern rock in 2024, the band might as well be the Rolling Stones at this point.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The brutal pruning of the family tree might as well be a mercy killing.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Roberts might as well ask why Buzz Aldrin doesn’t engage with people who think the Moon landing was faked.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
  • Sydney Sweeney just perfected the ponytail, and the rest of us might as well stop trying.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 July 2023
  • One of them manages to bend her face into a consoling smile that might as well be a Munch scream.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Sure enough, both Everett (8-8) and Modi (7-9) might as well have been calling heads or tails.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The footage and newsreels might as well have been taken yesterday.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 June 2024
  • But the contest might as well be between India and China.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2023

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